Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)

Federally qualified health centers include certain community health centers, migrant health centers and health care for the homeless programs along with others centers known as "look alike" FQHCs.

Services covered by the FQHC program include ambulatory services provided by physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, clinical psychologists and clinical social workers employed by the FQHC. There are 126 FQHCs enrolled as Medicaid providers.

Checklist for FQHCs- Information on denials, reasons for recoupments, where to find information in the Medicaid Provider Billing Manual, free tools and contacts for providers to use in preventing fraud and abuse - 9/17